Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux
Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux | |
|---|---|
 De Cayeux at the New York Forum 2011 | |
| Born | February 4, 1978 France |
| Nationality | American, French |
| Alma mater | Harvard Business School, ESSEC |
| Occupation(s) | Entrepreneur, investor |
| Title | President and COO of Escape Dynamics |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
| Relatives | Andre Cailleux (Grandfather) |
Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux (born February 4, 1978) is a French-American entrepreneur and was the president and COO of Escape Dynamics.[1]
Early life and education
Born in France, de Cayeux grew up between France and Hong Kong, moved to the United Kingdom in 1999 at age 21, and then in 2002 to the United States. She is the granddaughter of French scientist Andre Cailleux.[1] De Cayeux holds an MBA from ESSEC in France and an MBA from Harvard Business School where in 2004 she earned the Dubilier Prize. She also completed neutral buoyancy cosmonaut training in 2011.[2]
Career
De Cayeux started her career in the Investment Banking division of Goldman Sachs in London in 1999.[citation needed] She then became an investment principal at multi-strategy hedge fund TPG-Axon Capital.[3] She left to join Renaissance Technologies before founding investment firm AjnaCapial LLC in 2008.[4][5] Garriott is cofounder of Colorado-based advanced technology company Escape Dynamics.[6]
De Cayeux is also a regular speaker at business conferences and has appeared as a regular commentator on political and economic issues on BFM TV.[7] She was a keynote speaker at the Space Frontier Foundation's NewSpace Conference in 2015.[8]
Boards and affiliations
De Cayeux supports a variety of STEM and entrepreneurship programs and is involved in US foreign policy & economic and political affairs: she serves as board member, and is a former chair of the audit & finance committee of the National Museum of Mathematics.[9] She is also a Truman national security fellow, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations,[10] the Economic Club of New York, and Women Corporate Directors.[11][12]
De Cayeux served on the National Finance Council for Hillary for America, and was a co-founder of Entrepreneurs for Hillary, a volunteer organization involving entrepreneurs who supported Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Presidential campaign.[13]
Awards and honors
De Cayeux was recognized as a “Rising Talent” by the Women's Forum for the Economy and Society (2010) and by Institutional Investor magazine as a Hedge Fund Rising Star (2010).[14]
The business plan de Cayeux wrote with Harvard Business School classmate for Extend Fertility, a company that allows women to prolong their fertility by freezing their eggs, was the winner of Harvard Business School business plan competition,[15] placed second in Fortune Small Business plan competition and was a finalist in Global Start-up @Singapore business plan competition in 2004.[16]
Personal life
In 2011, de Cayeux married Richard Garriott.[17] She and husband had their first child, Kinga Shuilong Garriott de Cayeux, on June 30, 2012. Their second child, Ronin Phi Garriott de Cayeux was born on July 28, 2014.[18]
De Cayeux and her husband are the owners of the Luna 21 lander and the Lunokhod 2 rover making them the world’s only private owners of an object on a foreign celestial body.[19] They are also the largest shareholder of Space Adventures, which offers zero-gravity atmospheric flights and provides orbital spaceflights to Low Earth Orbit/the International Space Station with seven clients launched to orbit as of 2016.[20]
References
- ^ a b "How One Woman Is Democratizing the Final Frontier". Huffington Post.
- ^ "Latitia Pichot de Cayeux". Institutional Investor.
- ^ "LaetitiaGarriott de Cayeux". Space Tech Forum.
- ^ "LaetitiaGarriottTechonomy Profile". Retrieved May 15, 2015.
- ^ "Emploiaméricain: la FED abandonne la forward guidance: LaetitiaGarriott de Cayeux, dansIntégraleBourse". Lefigaro.
- ^ "LaetitiaGarriott Joins as President & COO". Archived from the original on January 21, 2015. Retrieved June 1, 2015.
- ^ "Escape Dynamics a développéune nouvelle génération de lancementsdansl'espace: LaetitiaGarriott de Cayeux (1/4) - 21/03". BFM Business.
- ^ "ISDC 2015 VIP Speakers". Retrieved June 1, 2015.
- ^ "Billionaires and Mathematicians Crack Jokes at Geekiest Event of the Season". Wall Street Journal.
- ^ "Council on Foreign Relations".
- ^ "Laetitia Garriott De Cayeux". Women's Forum.
- ^ "Escape Dynamics a développéune nouvelle génération de lancementsdansl'espace: LaetitiaGarriott de Cayeux (1/4) - 21/03". Challenges.
- ^ "Ready for Hillary raises $2 million in 3rd quarter". MSNBC.
- ^ "Institutional Investor's 2010 Rising Stars of Hedge Funds". Hedge Fund Industry Awards.
- ^ "Waiting for Mr Right, women freeze their eggs". Times of India.
- ^ "2nd Place – Extend Fertility". CNN.
- ^ "An Astronaut's Wedding". Sun Dial.
- ^ "Congratulations to the Garriott de Cayeux Family as They Welcome Their Second Child".
- ^ "Privately Owned Soviet Moon Rover Sparks Space Law Talks". Space.com.
- ^ "Station privéedansl'espace : ceschambres avec vuesurTerre". Les Echos.